Cromer's Cliftonville Hotel failed to pay staff minimum wage

North Norfolk Hospitality Limited, which previously owned The Cliftonville Hotel in Cromer before current owners City Pub Group took over the business in 2021, did not pay three members of staff at the hotel the legal minimum wage.

North Norfolk Hospitality Ltd were named and shamed in a list of more than 200 companies that failed to pay staff the minimum wage, which was published by the government earlier this week.

According to Companies House, North Norfolk Hospitality Ltd was wound up last year.

The company failed to pay three people a combined £908.56 – but it has since paid back the staff.  

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The Cliftonville Hotel in Cromer (Image: Colin Finch)

Built in 1897, the Edwardian Cliftonville Hotel is a Grade II listed building with 30 sea-view bedrooms.

A total of 202 UK businesses were ordered to repay workers the money they were owed and face penalties of almost £7 million after breaches left 63,000 workers out of pocket.

It comes after a 9.7pc rise in the National Living Wage and minimum Wage paid to almost three million workers.

City Pub Group, which currently owns The Cliftonville Hotel, in Runton Road, said it is aware of the failings of the hotel’s previous owners, which took place in a three-year period between 2015 and 2018.

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A City Pub Group spokesperson said: “The matter brought to our attention today precedes our ownership by almost three years. As such we have no knowledge of the details involved.”

Of the 202 businesses included in the list, 39pc of employers deducted pay from workers’ wages.

Another 39pc of employers failed to pay workers correctly for their working time, and 21pc paid the incorrect apprenticeship rate.